The Blues Room

Due to dearth of quality content on my journal as of recent, here's a list of "names" Nigerian 419 scammers have used in e-mailing me. Note how they are all composed entirely of first names, including given "surnames."

Liza James
Madelene Stevie
Dr. Philip Omar
Rachel Mario
Vivian Luis
Mark Jacob
Bernard Mathieu
Lee Scott
Mr. Melvin Walter
Mr. Franklin Hendrik
Mark Jacob
MAXWELL DERRICK
Nana Richard

Okay, for that last one, "Nana" isn't normally a first name in English, but still, I found it amusing.

ExCUSE me? Do mine eyes decieve me? People want BOOKS rated?!

While I can kind of understand it in visual/motion maybe even in audio media, the concept of suggesting age limits for BOOKS is blatantly ridiculous. Considering books are the most basic form of media around and literacy is fundamental to pretty much any educational foundation, the idea of trying to impose artificial limits on who can and can't read books is patently INSANE.

The only way this could have possibly been amusing would have been to watch people foaming at the mouth as the Bible got the equivalent of an R-rating, except you KNOW people would exempt the Bible from any sort of rating.